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krumbbumm: Kenneth Patchen - “Irkalla’s White Caves”
_illrene: Vol. 3 of Plastic Language airs at 1am on
ezrafurman: As Kenneth Patchen once titled a collection, "Hallelujah Anyway"
NYC and beyond, tune in to hear trans Jewish women talk about joy in a scary time for trans people
johnnyglucose: "Everything everywhere...." (Picture poem by Kenneth Patchen)
ClioHCorvid: Gentle and giving--All the rest is treason. -- Kenneth Patchen
DefencePhoto: "The snow is deep on the ground.
Always the light falls
Softly down on the hair of my belovèd" Kenneth Patchen
Artmusiclounge: Totally wacky piece! Frederic Rzewski channels his inner Steve Reich, David Amram and Kenneth Patchen in this wacked-out jazz-influenced piece with narration from the early 1970s. DIG IT, MAN!
Dennis_Buescher: William Carlos Williams
Louis Zukofsky
Charles Zenikoff
George Oppen
Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Rexroth
Sol Funaroff
Langston Hughes (if we count him as a modernist)
AidenHeung: “We are the insulted, brother, the desolate boys./Sleepwalkers in a dark and terrible land,/where solitude is a dirty knife at our throats.” - Street Corner College, Kenneth Patchen
krumbbumm: Kenneth Patchen’s “Orange Bears” - about the devastation to people & environment caused by the steel industry in Ohio & the failure of Whitmanesque pantheism in the face of industrial brutality.
Shadow2train: ‘upon the boughs, which are now made vocal by a thousand warbling throats… to dream you see a great light…’ - Kenneth Patchen, Sleepers Awake (New Directions, 1946)
paulbamberger4: so long as there is war between nations, the working classes of the world will be blinded to one simple fact: that they have only one enemy— capitalism.
Kenneth Patchen
No people can be both ignorant and free
Thomas Jefferson
chrisgclarke1: A few examples from Kenneth Patchen’s “Panels for the walls of heaven,” published by Bern Porter in 1946.
dasam: Kenneth Patchen winter poem
firegythia: Today I am really enjoying "The city wears a Slouch Hat" by Kenneth Patchen and live music by John Cage.
omnivorebooks: JUST IN: A super-cool 1949 Greenwich Village cookbook, with contributions by Milton Avery, Kenneth Patchen, Moses Soyer, Peggy Bacon, Bernice Abbott, Edward Hopper, Stuart Davis, and other NYC artists & writers of the day!
krumbbumm: (Kenneth Patchen, "Credit to Paradise")
cinephileo: If you really go for broke like Kenneth Patchen, it's writing very long things with no line breaks
Time8008: God must have loved the people in power, for he made them so much like their own image of him.
Kenneth Patchen
dasam: Kenneth Patchen winter poem
dasam: Kenneth Patchen winter poem
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
isidro_li: Exaggerate the green blood in grass;
the music of leaves scraping space;
Multiply the stillness by one sound;
by one syllable of your name...
And all that is little is soon giant,
all that is rare grows in common beauty
— Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
alocaltheater: A wonderful surprise - Vincente Minnelli tried his hand making a noise-sound score at MGM for The Clock (1945) inspired by John Cage's score for The City Wears a Slouch Hat by Kenneth Patchen.
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
krumbbumm: My great idea. (Kenneth Patchen - “The Journal of Albion Moonlight”
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
paulbamberger4: how we set about to answer the tide of barbarism which has swept the world: end war by bringing capitalism to and end. War is the life blood of capitalism, the body and soul. of fascism. To fight against war is to fight against the capitalist state.
Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
lightupswan: against any hurt
Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
Rand0m1y: At the New Year by Kenneth Patchen.
shamroze_fayyaz: There is this high singing in the air
Forever this sorrowful human face in eternity’s window
And there are other bells that we would ring, Father
Other bells that we would ring.
- Kenneth Patchen, “At the New Year”
dylanwalsdorf: Just some Kenneth Patchen for you on this New Year's Eve in rainy Los Angeles:
mayapatelday: cy alerted me that the poem of the day is one by kenneth patchen!! :) happy new year
rodjnaquin: At the New Year
BY KENNETH PATCHEN
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
eeehh__: FROM POEMSCAPES BY KENNETH PATCHEN
bienfilatre: Is the guy's kid's teacher Kenneth Patchen reincarnated? I could argue for it!
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
carolynzzz: Happy birthday also to one of my heroes, the one Kenneth Patchen. "All at once is what eternity is."
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
PetloverHermine: 13Dec/1911: Kenneth Patchen is born in Niles, Ohio. He’ll be known as a poet and novelist
archilocheion: »YOU CAN'T PUSH NO BUTTONS AND TURN NO HALLELUJAHS ON«
RayBoomhower: “If the truth is inside,
And the form is outside,
What is the truth of sleep?”
Kenneth Patchen
RayBoomhower: “Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.” Kenneth Patchen, born on this day in 1911
JohnMcDonald15: Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972)
"It's always because we love that we are rebellious;
it takes a great deal of love to give a damn one way
or another what happens from now on..."
MacCocktail: "Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night."
― Kenneth Patchen (born this day, December 13, 1911)
foxypiano: Kenneth Patchen, a real nigga with the pen can't lie
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
moderndayportia: Kenneth Patchen
Tzanjo: Can someondraw me a line from Kenneth Patchen’s The Lute in the Attic [CD Rebel Poets of America] to Wm Burroughs ‘The Junky’s Christmas’ [CD Spare Ass Annie And Other Tales]? Both jazz backed macabre poetic narratives. Not really asking but idle listening led one to the other.
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
rochesterslim: Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
borrelli_gomez: To defend the unreal at the cost of his reason
To obey each outrageous impulse
To commit his company to all enchantments.
✍️-- Kenneth Patchen
PhilHarrison: 'In the footsteps of the walking air
Sky's prophetic chickens weave their cloth of awe'
Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
OutlawsPoetic: "It is the artist’s duty to be alive
To drag people into glittering occupations
To blush perpetually in gaping innocence
To burrow beneath the subconscious
To defend the unreal at the cost of his reason"
-- Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
Versiferguson: The great Kenneth Patchen is one of the historical and influential poets in the Beat Not Beat anthology. Order through Moon Tide Books. Thanks, one and all!
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
FreeWillAstro: Discourage all trace of shame
Verify the irrational
Multiply all opinions
Blush perpetually in gaping innocence
Burrow beneath the subconscious
Bear no cross
Extend all boundaries
Generate the free brain
—Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
llinguaespanola: Torna de "The Snow Is Deep on the Ground" de Kenneth Patchen.
Llope.
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
isidro_li: Only a few go mad.
The sky moves in its whiteness
Like the withered hand of an old king.
God shall not forget us.
Who made the sky knows of our love.
— Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
2toes_: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
killmikeymdc: Kenneth Patchen
CONSCIOUSBEATS2: “Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.”―Kenneth Patchen
Powell_DA: ALLLIGHT SAVING TIME
Turn your clocks
sideways
to the hour
where
no- body
can get a good clean
shot at you.
--Kenneth Patchen
gallo_orlando: Kenneth Patchen
